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PHP Scales As Well As Java

Posted by michael on from the emperor-has-no-clothes dept.

mactari writes "Jack Herrington at the O'Reilly Network has had the audacity to claim that both PHP and J2EE architecture... are converging on the same design [regarding scalability]. Can it be that he's disproven the idea that 'Java scales and scripting languages don't' when he says, 'The idea that PHP does not scale is clearly false at the performance level'? Even if a little oversimplified (ignores horizontal scaling), it's an interesting comparison that takes a peek at the architecture beneath both hypes."

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  1. And in other news.. by Keck · · Score: 2, Funny

    pudding is as good of a building material as tofu..

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  2. Re:where I stopped reading by tmhsiao · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure if it was coded by former vb guy w/o a clue.

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  3. horizontal scaling by BubbaFett · · Score: 3, Funny

    The article doesn't ignore horizontal scaling. It scales to over twice the width of my browser.

  4. Re:What's the PHP equivalent to Java NIO? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What I would love to see is a 100,000+ lines project written in PHP being mantained by one or two developers.

    Well, if it were in PHP it wouldn't need to be 100,000 lines. It would be more like 5,000. *smirk*